Pablo Picasso frasi celebri
“L'arte è la menzogna che ci permette di conoscere la verità.”
Variante: L'arte è la bugia che ci permette di comprendere la verità.
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 60, p. 185.
Origine: Citato in George Steiner, Vere presenze, in Nessuna passione spenta, p. 46.
Origine: Citato in Matteo Persivale, La musica incompiuta di Gershwin affidata dagli eredi a Brian Wilson https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/ottobre/09/musica_incompiuta_Gershwin_affidata_dagli_co_9_091009066.shtml, Corriere della Sera, 9 ottobre 2009, p. 59.
“I 40 anni sono quell'età in cui ci si sente finalmente giovani. Ma è troppo tardi.”
Origine: Citato in Gino e Michele, Matteo Molinari, Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1997.
Origine: Citato in Richard Friedenthal, Lettere di grandi artisti.
Frasi sulla pittura di Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso Frasi e Citazioni
“Quando non ho più blu, metto del rosso.”
Origine: Citato in Guido Almansi, Il filosofo portatile, TEA, Milano, 1991.

Origine: Citato in F. Gilot e C. Lake, Vita con Picasso.
Origine: Citato in L'Indicatore, La Fiera Letteraria, aprile 1973, p. 5.
Origine: Citato in James Hillman, Il codice dell'anima, Adelphi, 1996.
“Tutto l'interesse dell'arte è nel principio. Dopo il principio, è già la fine.”
Origine: Dal dialogo con E. Téraide, da L'intransigeant, 15 giugno 1932.
“Una bottiglia su un tavolo è significativa quanto un dipinto religioso.”
Origine: Citato in Victoria Charles, Pablo Picasso, Parkstone International, 2011, p. 136 https://books.google.it/books?id=OyPYSlHm_z0C&pg=PA136. ISBN 1780422652
“Braque e James Joyce sono gli incomprensibili che tutti capiscono.”
Origine: Citato in Gertrude Stein, Autobiografia di Alice Toklas, traduzione di Cesare Pavese, Einaudi, Torino, 1978, p. 215
“[Le ultime parole ai familiari che l'assistevano nel letto di morte] Bevete alla mia salute.”
Origine: Citato in Giusi Fasano, Colpo al museo di Parigi Spariti 33 disegni di Picasso http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_giugno_10/furto_picasso_ee14f1b8-5586-11de-8b38-00144f02aabc.shtml, Corriere.it, 10 giugno 2009.
libro Cent clés pour Picasso
“Ogni atto di creazione è, prima di tutto, un atto di distruzione.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 111, p. 116.
Origine: Citato in Christian Parisot, Modigliani, la vita le opere, Edizioni Carte Segrete. pp. 170-171. ISBN 88-96490-91-X
Attribuite
Origine: Citato in Giovanni Reale, Saggezza antica, CDE, Milano, 1996, p. 32.
Pablo Picasso: Frasi in inglese
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Origine: Tomás R. Villasante (1994), Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264.
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
Compare: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T. S. Eliot, in Philip Massinger, in The Sacred Wood (1920)
Disputed
Variante: Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Origine: 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923), p. 315.
Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 270).
Other translation:
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality.
Richard Friedenthal (1968, p. 256-7).
Longer version:
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint. It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.. .Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. In my paintings of Dinard, as in my paintings of Purville, I have given expression to more or less the same vision.. .. You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only (Boisgeloup, winter 1934).
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 313
Quotes, 1930's, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35
Contesto: Abstract art is only painting. What about drama?
There is no abstract art. You always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
“[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s
Picasso quoted in 'TIME'; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
Picasso commented on his ambiguous style, or use of multiple styles.
1960s
“When I don't have red, I use blue.”
Pablo Picasso (1953); quoted in: Kilkenny (2004), Doomsday Marauders, p. 83.
1950s
Quoted in: Ann Livermore (1988), Artists and Aesthetics in Spain. p. 154
Attributed from posthumous publications
Quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 258 (translation Daphne Woodward)
1960s
“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
Quote, attributed to Picasso in: Jean Cocteau (1932), Opium: The Diary of an Addict. p. 63
Quotes, 1930's